polymorphous

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To intensify the sense of dissolving boundaries, Quarles has painted her polymorphous people using different techniques.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 15, 2019

Databases must be expanded to include the effects of polymorphous structures, defects, magnetism and doping on the basic symmetries of compounds.

From Nature • Feb. 26, 2019

Yet, gazing into the eyes of the self-possessed queen Emerald, Cooper’s Maine clearly accepts the polymorphous, femme-driven future the drag bar represents; it’s one of the movie’s sharpest intertextual moments.

From Slate • Dec. 22, 2018

Ten to twenty per cent of the population in Europe and North America suffers at one time or another from polymorphous light eruption, in which exposure to ultraviolet light causes a burning or itching rash.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 19, 2016

Pol′ymorph, an organism showing polymorphism: a substance that crystallises in two or more systems; Polymor′phism, the property of being polymorphous.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various